Nov. 15, 2017
11:41 am JST

Nov. 15, 2017
11:47 am JST

These figures mean jack for the vast majority of people. Just certain elites in Tokyo and Japan Inc. clients. Food is now accounting for more of the avergae family budget than ever before, wages have been nearly stagnant for decades and the inaka continues to die.

there is no good news here for workers, when you have to use 0.???, rather than a full number things are slightly slightly fluctuating and going backwards when as mentioned food costs are rising and to rub it in the foods are not that great and lack variety. Thank god my family send me food parcels.

Nov. 15, 2017
12:43 pm JST

I forgot to ask are these final figures or will they be actually checked and adjusted in a few months? Although the difference between 0.1 and 0.025 will affect my purchase of a small bag of potatoes vs a smaller tray of tomatoes.

Nov. 15, 2017
01:08 pm JST

The economy made be growing but not totally because of hard working Japanese spending. Tourist are feeding the economy. As stated in yesterday's news, companies are not give their staff wage hikes. Instead spending the money on M&A. So, great! The rich are getting richer and the average household is getting poorer.

Nov. 15, 2017
01:21 pm JST

I just want to know what is the criteria of economic growth in Japan. Is it sales + production fields scaled up, or figures according to this decreasing population, or to say, more people employed with better salaries ( that I doubt), or another propaganda of LDP Abe administration with Bank of Japan to show in congress what is good this Abenomics on going? The last one is much understandable why it is exposed in media.

Nov. 15, 2017
11:47 pm JST

I lived in Japan for a number of years ending in 2007, but my wife is Japanese so we go back all the time. We live in the US. What has been eye-opening is the lack of inflation there. The prices for things are more or less the same as they were when I was living there 10-15 years ago. Good for me when I want to get sloshed at back-to-back nomihodai's with old friends and take taxi back to my in-laws house, not so great for Japanese folks in the greater economic scheme of things.

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